digit Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 REMINDER: PLEASE carefully read ALL of the rules below. Make sure you include all the required information, IN THE REQUESTED FORMAT (below) when you submit your fossil! If you have a question about a possible entry, please send me a PM. Please pay special attention to Rule #5: Before and After Preparation Photos must be submitted for prepped specimens NOT found during the Month of the Contest. In addition to keeping the contest fair, this new qualification will encourage better documentation of our spectacular past finds. Entries will be taken until 11:59:00 PM EDT on MAY 31, 2020 Any fossil submitted after that time, even if the topic is still open, will be deemed ineligible! Only entries posted with CLEAR photos and that meet the other guidelines will be placed into the Poll. Photos of the winning specimens may be posted to TFF's Facebook page. Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for sharing more of your fossils and research this month. Shortly after the end of the Month, separate Polls will be created for the Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month. In addition to the fun of a contest, we also want to learn more about the fossils. Tell us more about your fossil, and why you think it is worthy of the honor. To view the Winning Fossils from past contests visit the Find Of The Month Winner's Gallery. Now, go find your fossil, do your research, and make an entry! Best of success to all, and good hunting! *********************************** Rules for The Fossil Forum's Vertebrate and Invertebrate/Plant Find of the Month Contests Find a great Vertebrate Fossil or Invertebrate/Plant Fossil! Only fossils found personally by you are allowed. NO PURCHASED FOSSILS. Post your entry in the Find of the Month topic. Use a separate post for each entry. (Only two entries per member per contest category.) Your fossil must have been found during the Month of the Contest, or Significant Preparation * of your fossil must have been completed during the Month of the Contest. You must include the Date of Discovery (when found in the contest month); or the Date of Preparation Completion and Date of Discovery (if not found in the contest month). Before and After Preparation photos must be submitted for prepped specimens not found during the Month of the Contest. Please make sure you arrange for photos if someone else is preparing your fossil find and completes the prep requirements in the contest month. You must include the Common and/or Scientific Name. You must include the Geologic Age or Geologic Formation where the fossil was found. You must include the State, Province, or region where the fossil was found. You must include CLEAR, cropped, well-lit images (maximum 4 images). If you are proud enough of your fossil to submit it for FOTM, spend some time to take good photos to show off your fossil. Play fair and honest. No bought fossils. No false claims. * Significant Preparation = Substantial work to reveal and/or repair important diagnostic features, resulting in a dramatic change in the look of the fossil. The qualification of Significant Preparation is decided at the discretion of staff. Any doubts as to the eligibility of the entry will be discussed directly with the entrant. ******* Please use the following format for the required information: ******* Date of Discovery (month, day , year) Scientific and/or Common Name Geologic Age or Geologic Formation State, Province, or Region Found Photos of Find (Please limit to 4 clear, cropped, and well-lit images.) (If prepped, before and after photos are required, please.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planko Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Alright, I'll get this started. Please see my entry below. First picture is of two of the same bivalves. They were found within 15 feet of each other. One was encased within a ball of matrix and the other in the open. I am just entering the calcite covered one. Thought they were neat as a pair as they are roughly the same size. About 4inx3inx2in. Could not believe they were so close to each other. 5-3-2020 Trigonia sp. with calcite Upper Cretaceous - (75-90 Ma) North Sulfur River, Delta County, Texas - 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digit Posted May 9, 2020 Author Share Posted May 9, 2020 And May is off to a good start. Cheers. -Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson g Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Wow, very pretty! I'm not sure if your last entry, or this is nicer! Being the shell man I am, I'll lean towards this one. Seems I'm hunting the wrong area of the NSR because I only find teeth and bacculites. I'm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planko Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Well we should share some info as I just found my first sharks tooth today. Broken, but still a tooth. Been trying to find them. I find quite a few gastropods and some bivalves other than oysters. NSR is very diverse from what i have found. Depends on where you are at and how far you get away from people. I need to find a nice ammonite area to find some very complete ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixgill pete Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 That is a very nice Trigonia Bulldozers and dirt Bulldozers and dirt behind the trailer, my desert Them red clay piles are heaven on earth I get my rocks off, bulldozers and dirt Patterson Hood; Drive-By Truckers May 2016 May 2012 Aug 2013, May 2016, Apr 2020 Oct 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troodon Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 My contribution to this months entries: My South Dakota prep person let me know that she finally finished the Ceratopsian jaw I collected last September. I had not put any rush on it since I was not planning to pick it up until this summer. I will go pick it up on my next collecting trip to SD whenever that happens. Virus go away. I'm going to label it Triceratops prorsus since its from an upper Hell Creek Formation deposit and other T. prorsus material including partial skulls have been found in the area. Of course it still could be from a Torosaurus or other undescribed large bodied Ceratopsian if they exist. Its a good size specimen at over 2 feet long and I was fortunate that it still had a large portion the sheath intact which kept a good portion of the tooth battery in place. Its pretty complete with no restoration just minor crack fill. Species Triceratops prorsus Specimen: Right Dentary Discovered: 9/15/19 Formation: upper Hell Creek Formation Locality: Powder River County, Montana Size: 25" (64 cm ) wide Site Photos Prepped 39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Ooh, lovely dentary @Troodon Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy! Q. Where do dinosaurs study? A. At Khaan Academy!... My ResearchGate profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Planko Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Holy smokes. That is an awesome piece Troodon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleoNoel Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Very impressive @Troodon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caterpillar Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 Good job. Congrats http://www.paleotheque.fr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyBoy Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 wow thats a beautiful dentary the teeth are superb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Russell Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Hey Folks, After many years I guess I’ll throw my hat in the this month with a nice polychaete worm called esconites zelus. I collected the concretion several years ago at; rightfully so, Esconi hill in Braceville, Il. Since the self isolation routine began I started freezing and thawing some of those concretions I collected several years back, and this one popped open on 5/3/20. I feel fortunate that it split as cleanly as it did. The head is about a good centimeter higher in elevation than the tail. A good prepper could remove the small piece still covering the bit of tail still concerned up, and flip it over onto the other half filling in this missing piece. Maybe some day. Date of discovery: 5/3/20. Concretion collected in 2012. Name: Esconites zelus Geological age: Mid Pennsylvanian (307 mya) Formation: Francis Creek shale. 16 Finding my way through life; one fossil at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuMert Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 On 10.05.2020 at 6:29 PM, Troodon said: Ceratopsian jaw Impressive My sites & reports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strepsodus Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Seeds are uncommon to find in the coal measures. The few that I have found before this have all been Trigonocarpus parkinsonii. For a long time I have been hoping to find a Holcospermum. Therefore, I was surprised to find a Holcospermum seed on the same block as a Sphenophyllum. Although Sphenophyllum is generally not a rare plant, good examples are very difficult to find in the Yorkshire coalfield these days, due to there being very few sites to find them. This is therefore the best Sphenophyllum in my collection, and the only seed I have found that is not Trigonocarpus. Found Thursday 14th of May 2020 Holcospermum seed and Sphenophyllum Late Carboniferous - Pennine Middle Coal Measures formation South Yorkshire, UK 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 My entry for invertebrate category. I have this echinoid since november 2018 but I don't have good preparation tools so normally I have difficult to prepare my fossils. I only have a dremel engraver so I have many accumulated fossils to prepare. This fossil a friend prepared for me this month so I want to put in contest but please see if is valid. Date of discovery: 18 november18. Prepared in 4 may of 2020 Name: Clypeaster sp. Geological age: Miocene (Burdigalian) Formation: Sesimbra - Portugal Before preparation: Prepared: 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Paleontologist Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Finally got a chance to get back out and go prospecting a few days ago and get to check off a bucket-list item! Lighting was a bit hard to get figured out, but I think you should be able to see it fairly well here. Pseudotetrasauropus is a broad category of footprints from the late Triassic, usually (but not always) being tetradactyl and bipedal. These tracks resemble those of a prosauropod dinosaur and well match the foot structure. Discovered May 16, 2020 Pseudotertrasauropus footprint Late Triassic Redonda Formation Quay County, NM 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, Cowboy Paleontologist said: Lighting was a bit hard to get figured out, but I think you should be able to see it fairly well here. Try to add another photo taken in sunlight with the find propped at an angle to enhance its features. 3 The human mind has the ability to believe anything is true. - JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Paleontologist Posted May 20, 2020 Share Posted May 20, 2020 12 hours ago, JohnJ said: Try to add another photo taken in sunlight with the find propped at an angle to enhance its features. Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicnfossils Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 Some very nice entries so far, love that ceratopsian jaw. The kind of stuff that makes me so jealous y’all are in areas where you’re permitted to collect stuff like that...if I dared, I could get fined thousands upon thousands of dollars. Stupid Alberta. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntonia Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 On 5/19/2020 at 7:33 AM, Vieira said: Man, I'm not that much of an echinoid person but that is beautiful! Well worth the wait to get it prepped! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vieira Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 21 minutes ago, Huntonia said: Man, I'm not that much of an echinoid person but that is beautiful! Well worth the wait to get it prepped! Thanks for your words. I love these type of echinoids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinosaur man Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 On 5/10/2020 at 11:29 AM, Troodon said: My contribution to this months entries: My South Dakota prep person let me know that she finally finished the Ceratopsian jaw I collected last September. I had not put any rush on it since I was not planning to pick it up until this summer. I will go pick it up on my next collecting trip to SD whenever that happens. Virus go away. I'm going to label it Triceratops prorsus since its from an upper Hell Creek Formation deposit and other T. prorsus material including partial skulls have been found in the area. Of course it still could be from a Torosaurus or other undescribed large bodied Ceratopsian if they exist. Its a good size specimen at over 2 feet long and I was fortunate that it still had a large portion the sheath intact which kept a good portion of the tooth battery in place. Its pretty complete with no restoration just minor crack fill. Species Triceratops prorsus Specimen: Right Dentary Discovered: 9/15/19 Formation: upper Hell Creek Formation Locality: Powder River County, Montana Size: 25" (64 cm ) wide Site Photos Prepped Beautiful jaw @Troodon! On 5/21/2020 at 12:00 AM, musicnfossils said: Some very nice entries so far, love that ceratopsian jaw. The kind of stuff that makes me so jealous y’all are in areas where you’re permitted to collect stuff like that...if I dared, I could get fined thousands upon thousands of dollars. Stupid Alberta. I agree, I wish I could collect fossils in Alberta too, especially when I went there in 2018 and seen all the amazing fossils just laying there and just wanted to collect them! But rules are rules, even if we don’t like them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natalie81 Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 5/10/2020 at 11:29 AM, Troodon said: Species Triceratops prorsus Specimen: Right Dentary Discovered: 9/15/19 Formation: upper Hell Creek Formation Locality: Powder River County, Montana What a find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pterygotus Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 Found this on a boulder which made extraction quite hard . Had to piece it together slowly afterwards. Took about 30 mins to an hour extraction and a further 3 hrs repair. Biggest I’ve ever found . Measures 12cm long. I have photos of it at the find location but need to find them. Date of Discovery: May 16, 2020 Scientific and/or Common Name: Hybodont shark. Cf. Nemacanthus Geologic Age or Geologic Formation: Rhaetian, Triassic, Westbury Formation State, Province, or Region Found: Somerset, UK 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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